Statement from Chairman Mondello After receiving a phone call this morning from Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the announcement that he will make later today, I conferred with Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno and Assembly Republican Leader James Tedisco about the critically important race for the Republican presidential nomination. I am grateful that these two great [...]
The amount of homework public school teachers can give would be limited to ten minutes a grade a night under a new resolution being introduced to the City Council. That means first-graders would get 10 minutes a night; second-graders would get 20 minutes a night; third-grades 30 minutes, and so forth. “Kids deserve to be [...]
The Bloomberg administration is overhauling the way that principals at New York City’s 1,500 public schools are evaluated and selected, taking centralized control of the initial screening of candidates and trying to shake up a system where, officials say, a vast majority of principals routinely get satisfactory evaluations. The changes come as the administration has [...]
One of Gov. Spitzer‘s closest legislative allies yesterday criticized the governor’s $124.3 billion budget as too much. “I think we’re spending much too much and we have to look at ways to sort of attrition our expenses,” Senate Democratic Minority Leader Malcolm Smith told reporters after addressing a statewide group of county officials. Smith said [...]
Mike Bloomberg is standing in the middle of 40 lanes of traffic. The mayor of New York City has come to a freeway intersection in south Los Angeles, a spot where the 105 and the 110 cross over, under, and around one another in an awesome, strangely beautiful loop of soaring concrete columns and exit [...]
Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg‘s testimony in Albany this week that the city’s taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they get back, a City Council member is offering legislation that would begin the process of having New York City secede from New York State. Peter Vallone Jr., a Democrat who represents Queens, [...]
Developer Larry Silverstein announced plans today to build the tallest residential building in New York at 99 Church St., just two blocks from the former World Trade Center site. The 80-story limestone building, designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern, will contain 143 luxury condominiums and a Four Seasons Hotel. The hotel will occupy the first [...]
The city Planning Commission yesterday approved a modified plan for a development that would sprout up just south of the United Nations, and tower over the international landmark. The decision set up a possible battle in the City Council over the project, which calls for building seven slender towers at the 8.7-acre site of a [...]
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Monday that the Spitzer administration was shortchanging New York City by about $500 million, and he urged lawmakers to restore the money, especially in education and health care. During pointed testimony at a joint legislative budget hearing, the mayor said the school aid that Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed to [...]
At the New York State Conservative Party’s 41st annual Political Action Conference, State Chairman Michael R. Long called for Albany’s elected officials to reduce all taxes, especially property taxes, to cut spending and reject a traffic congestion tax.Mr. Long’s comments follow: “We began last year with an anticipated hope that New Yorker’s would no longer [...]
